Westerfeld's Goliath: suitably thrilling conclusion to cracking steampunk WWI YA trilogy Rufus Roo: a bag-of-holding coat for beating airline luggage limits Facehugger-inspired leather mask Jarritos, the classic Mexican soda brand, crosses the border (and invades Boing Boing) Just look at this banana fan. Design fiction about cities divided by international borders Shain Erin's dolls for sale on etsy The Art of Living Dangerously: TEDx talk by William Gurstelle Tim O'Reilly checks out the scene at "Occupy Wall Street" protest Song-a-day man commemorates 1,000th song with album, video Ding, dong, DADT is dead! Hitler learns of the new changes to Star Wars on Blu-ray Netflix "Qwikster" has a Twitter problem. A thuggish, weed-loving, Twitter problem. Talk Like a Pirate. A *Somalian* Pirate. Canadian author Michael Crummey in NYC tonight Electric eel man Gweek 017: All Nighter cartoonist David Hahn Wolves in Yellowstone on PBS NewsHour tonight Mitch Horowitz's Occult New York Walking Tour Auction of antique French fairground artifacts Barn Owl's "Turiya" video America's Internet service slips to #25 worldwide John Landis: Monsters In The Movies Insane tabloid headline about little person porn star killed by animal Darth Vader "NOOOOO!" inserted into other classic movies Peaches the pet skunk enjoys a birthday cupcake (video) Dinosaur feathers in amber Eacles Imperialis (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) Men take dead buddy out on the town Belen, Berlusconi, and bunga-bunga 
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Westerfeld's Goliath: suitably thrilling conclusion to cracking steampunk WWI YA trilogy
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 20, 2011 12:46 pm Scott Westerfeld's Goliath ships today, concluding his fabulous steampunk YA trilogy that began with Leviathan and continued in Behemoth. This alternate history of WWI is set in a world divided into two technological camps. On the Darwinist side, scientists manipulate …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 20, 2011 12:11 pm Rufus Roo jackets are designed to help you beat airline luggage limits (given that they seem to be British, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this was inspired by the awful RyanAir, which treats travelling …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 20, 2011 10:07 am From Ukrainian steampunk/fetish mask maker Bob Baset, the Hugger Head mask, "Slightly reinterpreted Giger monster. It now manages the object. Or maybe it's a happy symbiosis?" Hugger head Leather Mask
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 20, 2011 05:47 am I recently noticed that Jarritos became a sponsor on Boing Boing (you may well be seeing their ads here as you read this post). This is awesome! And tonight, I spotted this New York Times feature about how the 61-year-old …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 20, 2011 05:30 am Just look at it. Banana Fan
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 20, 2011 02:03 am Madeline Ashby sez, "The Border Town design studio has been invited to the Detroit Design Festival to exhibit costumes, board games, 3D-printed snowglobes, mixtapes, and other kipple of an awesome nature about cities divided by international borders. I wrote a …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 19, 2011 10:53 pm Shain Erin is an artist who makes adorable dolls that any child would love to snuggle with. You can buy them in Shain's etsy store.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 19, 2011 10:24 pm I enjoyed my friend Bill Gurstelle's TEDx talk about "The Art of Living Dangerously," an idea he explores in his recent book, Absinthe and Flamethrowers. An individual's risk taking propensity and skills has profound influence on an individual's happiness. William …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 09:55 pm Tim O'Reilly has a lengthy Google+ post with photos of his visit to the Occupy Wall Street rally.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 09:32 pm Jonathan sez, "I've been writing a song and posting it on YouTube every day since January 1, 2009. On September 28, 2011, I will be commemorating my 1000th song by releasing an album. The first single and video from the …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 09:23 pm On September 20, 2011, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" will officially become past tense. More: Washington Post. Here's the document (PDF) memorializing the transition. (thanks, Gautam Ramdurai)
Read in browser Hitler learns of the new changes to Star Wars on Blu-ray
By Jason Weisberger on Sep 19, 2011 09:08 pm [video link]
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 08:41 pm Over the weekend and after an ill-received price hike, beleaguered Netflix CEO Reed Hastings pulled a dramatic mea culpa. In a post on the official Netflix blog, he announced that the company will split streaming and DVD services, and launch …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 08:31 pm Today, September 19, is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. But "avast ye hearties" and "arrrrr" aren't representative of the language you'd most likely hear if your boat were overtaken by actual, modern-day working pirates now. At Wired.com, the Danger …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 08:27 pm Tonight in NYC: The Upper North Side Author Series presents Michael Crummey -- a Canadian writer who's just had his novel Galore published in the USA.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 19, 2011 08:25 pm [Video Link] I saw this video on TV about 10 years ago. A doctor demonstrates his ability to deliver shocks like an electric eel and ignite a newspaper with his bare hand. What's the trick?
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 19, 2011 07:48 pm Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps and other neat stuff. This week I interviewed David Hahn, creator of of the comic book, All Nighter, published by Image …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 07:40 pm If today's broadcast schedule continues as planned, The PBS NewsHour will air a piece I helped Miles O'Brien shoot in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho about the return of wolf hunting for sport in the American West. Some of it, I …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 07:23 pm The latest episode of The Midnight Archive weird culture video series talks to my friend Mitch Horowitz, author of the excellent Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation, about his popular Occult New York Walking Tour. …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 07:17 pm Above are two incredible artifacts from the Fabienne & François Marchal Collection of Fairground Art to be auctioned off in Paris on September 28-29. From the press release: Among the historic and/or rare items will be some 80 wooden horses …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 06:31 pm Barn Owl -- the heavy, minimalist, trance-inducing collaboration between Bay Area guitarist Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti -- have released a stunning new LP, titled Lost in the Glare. On this release, the guitars are complemented by a Farfisa organ, …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 06:17 pm Welcome to America, the country with the 25th fastest Internet service in the world, just behind Romania, and falling fast. The culprit? Hard to say, but maybe it's got something to do with the FCC's abolition of any sort of …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 05:34 pm Filmmaker John Landis, director of the classic An American Werewolf in London and a slew of other great films, is a connoisseur of monster movies. In fact, he has just written a history book on the subject, titled Monsters In …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 05:19 pm A coup of tabloid headline writing, from the UK rag The Sunday Sport. The backstory, from BuzzFeed: Percy Foster was a 3-foot-6-inch dwarf who starred in the UK porno "Hi-Ho Hi-Ho, It's Up Your Arse We Go." He bore an …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 05:18 pm [Video Link, via this AOL Moviefone post, via @Glinner.]
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 05:12 pm Video Link, via Eric Wareheim. Peaches the Skunk's YouTube channel is full of great stuff. But, "no treats for Peaches hardly."
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 05:04 pm The above photo shows dinosaur feathers found in amber. Discovered in Alberta, Canada, the preserved plumage likely came from dinosaurs and birds that lived 75 to 80 million years ago. The University of Alberta researchers published their findings in the …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 19, 2011 04:57 pm PHOTO: Eacles Imperialis, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from Boing Boing reader camerajohn's photostream, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. This otherworldly little critter will become an Imperial Moth.
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 19, 2011 04:48 pm Last month, these gentlemen, Robert Young and Mark Rubison, took their pal Jeffrey Jarrett out for drinks in Denver. Jarrett stayed in the car though. Why? Because he was dead. Still, he was kind enough to treat the whole night, …
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By Jasmina Tesanovic on Sep 19, 2011 04:44 pm [Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) talks with members of the parliament during a debate in the upper house of Parliament in Rome September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Max Ross] The foreign press is raving about Berlusconi's escort scandals and his unfortunate …
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